Henry leppert



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H. LEPPERT. TRANSOM ROD HOLDER.

No. 545,080. Patented Aug; 27,1895,

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PATEN HENRY LEPPERT, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE RUSSELL 85 ERWIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TRANSOM-ROD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,080, dated August 2'7, 1895.

Application filed April 29, 1896.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LEPPERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transom-Rod Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in transom-rod holders, and the chief objects of my improvement are simplicity and economy in construction and efficiency and convenience in operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my transom-rod holder, together with a portion of a transom-operating rod. Fig. 2 is aplan view thereof with therod in transverse section, and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section through the frame and pins, the other parts being in elevation.

A designates the frame, which is preferably formed of a single piece of sheet metal with the sides t at bent up in U form with a clamping-socket 5 at their base or junction. From the ends of this socket the legs 6 extend, said legs being provided with any suitable feet 7.

Between the sides of the frame I pivot, side by side, a pair of reversely-arranged eccentrics or cams 8, on the fulcrum-pin 9, with their lever-handles 10 projecting to the front and within a suitable distance from each other to be grasped between the thumb and forefinger of the operator. The dividing-line or confronting side faces of the cams are in a plane which passes through the axis of the transom-operating rod 13, and consequently the inner corners of the cams bear upon the summit of said rod, as shown in Fig. 2.

Between the lever-handles 10 on the transverse pin 11 I arrange a spring 12, its reclamping-socket of the the frame.

wise force upon the rod in either direction will Serial no. 547,465. (No model.)

said cams against the transomrod. In Fig. 3 one cam is shown by full lines, and so much of the edge of the other cam as is hidden from view thereby is indicated in broken lines. The spring holds both cams in engagement with the rod, which rod bears against the Any endcause one or the other of the cams to still tighter bind the rod between said cam and the clamping-socket. WVhen the rod is forced in one directionsay in the downward direction, as shown-the cam whose handle is uppermost will bind upon the rod, and if forced in the reverse direction the other cam, whose handle is lowermost, will bind upon the rod. In order to release the rod for raising or lowering, the two lever-handles are pressed toward each other, which will lift both cams from binding contact and leave the rod perfectly free. As soon as the handles are released, the spring immediately causes the cams to mengage the rod, so that any endwise force there on will only cause it to be more firmly held in place.

I claim as my inventionr The herein described transom rod holder consisting of a frame having the two broad sides 4, with a clamping socket 5 at their base or junction for bearing contact with one side of the transom rod, and having also the feet 7 and supporting legs 6 extended from said socket, a pair of oppositely arranged eccentrics or cams secured between said sides 4 of said frame for acting on the other side of said rod, and a spring for pressing said cams toward said rod, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

HENRY LEPPERT. Witnesses:

THos. S. BISHOP, M. S. WIARD. 

